Billy Joel - My Lives
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Artist: Billy JoelBrand: Sony
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2005-11-22
Music Label: Sony
Product features:
- My Lives
- This stunning collection is a must-have for Billy Joel fans everywhere - 40 years includes 66 stellar performances captured for all time in this fabulous compiliation!
Music CD 1
- My Journey's End * - The Lost Souls
- Time And Time Again * - Lost Souls
- Every Step I Take (Every Move I Make) - The Hassles
- You've Got Me Hummin' - The Hassles
- Amplifier Fire - Attila
- Only A Man * (Demo, Never Released)
- She's Got A Way (Album Version)
- Oyster Bay * (Demo, Never Released)
- Piano Man * (Demo, Never Released)
- The Siegfried Line* (Demo, Never Released)
- New Mexico * (Demo, Never Released - Became "Worse Comes to Worst")
- Cross To Bear * (Demo, Never Released)
- Miami 2017 * (Demo, Never Released)
- These Rhinestone Days * (Demo, Never Released - Became "I Loved These Days")
- Everybody Has A Dream
- Only The Good Die Young * (Alternate Version, Never Released)
- Until The Night (Album Version)
- Zanzibar (Album Verison, Unfaded)
- It's Still Rock and Roll To Me (Album Version)
- Captain Jack * (Live Version, Never Released)
- The End Of The World * (Demo, Never Released -Became "Elvis Presley Blvd")
- The Prime Of Your Life * (Demo, Never Released - Became "For Longest Time")
- She's Right On Time (Album Version)
- Elvis Presley Blvd.
- Nobody Knows But Me
- An Innocent Man (album Version)
- Christie Lee * (Demo, Never Released)
- Easy Money (Album Version)
- And So It Goes * (Demo, Never Released)
- I'll Cry Instead (live)
- Keeping the Faith 12"
- Modern Woman (Album Version)
- Baby Grand with Ray Charles
- Getting Closer with Steve Winwood * (Alternate Version, Never released)
- House Of Blue Light
- Money Or Love * (Demo, Never Released)
- The Times They Are A Changin' (Live Album Version)
- The Downeaster "Alexa" (Album Version)
- I Go To Extremes * (Live, Never Released)
- Shout
- All Shook Up
- Heartbreak Hotel
- When You Wish Upon A Star
- In A Sentimental Mood
- Motorcycle Song * (Demo, Never Released - Became "All About Soul")
- You Picked A Real Bad Time
- The River Of Dreams * (Alternate Version, Never Released)
- Hard Days Night
- Light As The Breeze
- To Make You Feel My Love
- Hey Girl
- Why Should I Worry
- Where Were You On Our Wedding Day (album version)
- Highway 61 Revisited * (Demo, Never Released)
- Movin' Out
- You May Be Right duet with Elton John * (Live, Never Released)
- Big Shot
- Don't Worry Baby
- Goodnight Saigon - Vietnam Veterans Version
- Los Angelenos
- New York State Of Mind
- Opus 1. Soliloquy (On A Separation)
- Opus 8. Suite For Piano (Star Crossed)
- Elegy: The Great Peconic
- No Man's Land
- Pressure
- Ballad Of Billy The Kid
- Leningrad
- Allentown
- My Life
- I Go To Extremes
- Shades Of Grey
- The River Of Dreams
- Goodnight Saigon
- We Didn't Start the Fire
- Hard Days Night
- Big Shot
- Piano Man
Music reviews of My Lives
Music Review: Disappointing For The Long Time Joel Fan.
Rating: 3 Stars
As someone who has loved Billy Joel for years and professes to own pretty much all officially released Joel material (and then some), I cannot help but express disappointment of the decidedly poor handling of this boxed set. There is no doubt a lot of great music here, but how much of it do we really not already have?
Of the sixty-something songs, only 23 are previously unreleased, mostly demos or live recordings. While these are definitely treasureable recordings, it leaves the listener with too much of a feeling of wanting more. Sure, most of the previously released stuff is the obscure albums tracks (such as the excellent ballad "Until The Night" from "52nd Street), and the demos (such as the lovely 1983 take of "And So It Goes") give good insight into how some of the greatest recordings in popular music came to be, but when you consider how much of this stuff has already been released (in some cases, several times over), it really makes you wonder how much thought Billy really put into this. Billy, to be fair, has never been one who gives his fans the unheard gems they so crave, as he is very self-critical and figures that if it was shelved, it was for a good reason.
Only on Disc 4, which features a plethora of great live tracks, does the casual fan have reason to celebrate. Two duets with Elton John, a raucous "You May Be Right" and a cover of "Hard Day's Night," are good consolations to the fact that we've never heard an official cd or dvd release from any of the five (soon to be six) Face2Face tours. There's an explosive rendition of "Big Shot" dating to the late 1990s' that ranks among Billy's best performances of this song (one of his weakest musically, though I love it because it's fun). His beautiful cover of "Don't Worry Baby" from the 2000 Brian Wilson tribute is also included, and is one of th best recordings Billy ever did, live or in the studio. Towards the end the cd gets a bit tedious with the classical stuff, but the hidden track, a hilarious interview from 1980 promoting "Glass Houses," makes up for it.
The dvd is admittedly disappointing. Taken from Billy's June 18th, 1994 concert in Germany, the performances themselves are excellent, but the show itself is severely truncated, missing great performances from that night such as deep, introspective rendering of "Honesty" and a soulful "An Innocent Man." (There's an excellent soundboard bootleg of the complete show floating around.)
The booklet is impressive, with a very nice essay, but ultimately provides little. Overall, "My Lives" is a fairly worthy collection, but it's not the definitive collection it could've been.
Description of My Lives
Experience the evolution of a superstar! This stunning collection is a must-have for Billy Joel fans everywhere - 40 years includes 66 stellar performances captured for all time in this fabulous compiliation! Features live concert performances and includes 23 unreleased gems and demo versions.For the casual fan, The Essential Billy Joel still does the trick. However, this five-disc set rewards fans who have stuck by the Piano Man through the last four decades. Packed with 66 tracks, 23 previously unreleased, My Lives includes rare solo demos, b-sides, soundtrack hits, unexpected cover songs and plenty of blackmail material. Before hitting his stride as a hugely successful pop artist, it turns out Joel put in time with psychedelic rockers (Lost Souls), pseudo R&B players (the Hassles) and a prog-metal duo (Attila). It's all here. What this collection reveals is that despite his fairly consistent mainstream output the singer never stopped experimenting. There is a reggae version of "Only The Good Die Young," a soulful reading of Leonard Cohen's "Light as the Breeze," supper club jazz with Duke Ellington's "In A Sentimental Mood," even classical interludes from his later years. There's room to grumble about what did and didn't make the cut, particularly with the stray album cuts, but this is a great testament to the range and restless spirit of the songwriter. The DVD features a 1993 concert filmed in Hamburg. --Aidin Vaziri
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